News
AWMM’s Iwi-led research collaboration
$133M awarded by NZMBIE Endeavour Fund
Silverton’s Mad Max 2 Museum
a 40-year obsession with 1980s action movie
CM opens “Dragons & Taniwha” 50 year
Owen Mapp CNZM bone carving retrospective
John Glover Prize judges revealed for 2021
incl QVMAG Director & TMAG Curator
David Attenborough – A life on our planet
to premiere 28 September
MV issues conservation callout for Tooarrana
(- the broad-toothed rat) as habitats degrade
QMN collaboration explores GBR at depth
finding new corals & understanding evolution
Scottish Govt seeks more accurate portrayal
of slavery & colonial history in museum collns
DCMS on museums education on Britain’s past
– a complex of both good and bad
TRA NVS Domestic Tourism release June 2020
monitoring changes in tourism activity
WA has a museum of Indigenous art & culture
– with proper funding, it could be national
WA Museum Boola Bardip free ballot
for 21 Nov opening – a 9-day celebration
ANMM views Australia – Indonesia friendship
born in ban on Dutch shipping 75 yrs ago
Age of Fishes Museum’s Canowindra fossil
site for sale – future unclear
Will COVID-19 change museum architecture?
creating a safe environment for visitors and staff
What’s changed for museums – an opportunity
to re-vision and rebuild our institutions
UK museums are back open
but visitors are staying away
Museums grapple with ethics of China projects
forging partnerships despite human rights abuses
QVMAG/ City of Launceston support
repatriation of Preminghana petroglyphs
NMA, QVMAG & Te Papa engage with
beautifully preserved “NZ” thylacine pelt
AM Goin’ froggin’ proves a popular pastime
FrogID surpasses 200,000 validated frog records
NMA publishes What the Colonists Never Knew:
A History of Aboriginal Sydney
Vale Sir Ken Robinson – educationist who
stressed liberating imagination & initiative
QVMAG Natural Visions exhibition
The Camera and Conservation in Tasmania
SAM hosts Australian Geographic Nature
Photographer of the Year awards & exhibition
‘Libraries are about being together.’
So what do they do now?
What should a museum look like in 2020?
– perspectives from US art museums
National survey of Australians’ cultural tastes
– culture, inequalities & social divisions
BM redisplays founder Hans Sloane in context
of the British Empire and the slave economy
Rio’s response to destroying Juukan Gorge
– Parliamentary Inquiry continuing